Wesley Corpus

Mon. 18.--Many seemed not a little moved, while I enforced the words of Eliphaz, (it seems, the eldest and most honourable of Job’s three friends,) “Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace.” Afterwards we took a view of the Primate's lodge and chapel, elegant in the highest degree; and of the domain surrounding them, which is laid out and planted in the most beautiful manner. And what hath the owner there of? Not so much as the beholding thereof with his eyes. Probably he will behold it no more. He is fully taken up in building a large seat near Dublin, at above eighty years of age Tu secanda marmora Locas sub ipsum funus, et sepulchri Immemor struis domos /* In the evening I preached once more in Mr. M'Gough’s avenue, and a listening multitude seriously attended. Surely there will be a harvest here also by and by, although hitherto we see but little fruit. Tues. 19.--We went on through horrible roads to Newry. s wonder any should be so stupid as to prefer the Irish roads to the English. The huge unbroken stones, of which they are * For a translation of these lines see p. 31 l of this volume.--EDIT. June, 1787.] JOURNAL. 385 generally made, are enough to break any carriage in pieces. No, there is nothing equal to good English gravel, both for horses, carriages, and travellers. In the evening I preached to a numerous congregation in the large meeting-house. I believe many felt the edge of the word sharper than a two-edged sword: One consequence of which was, that our new Room would not contain the congregation even at five in the morning, but many were con strained to stand without. Between mine and ten I preached in the market-house at Dundalk. We expected a tumult; but there was none at all : A very large congregation of rich and poor behaved with the utmost decency, while I enforced, “Now is the accepted time; now is the day of salvation.” At six in the evening I preached in the Court-House at Drogheda to a crowded congregation, on, “I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God.” Even in this turbulent town, all were quiet, and seemed to feel that God was there. Thur.